HR: 14:05h
AN: A23F-02 INVITED     [Abstracts]
TI: The EOS Aura Microwave Limb Sounder (EOS MLS)
AU: * Waters, J W
EM: joe@mls.jpl.nasa.gov
AF: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, 4800 Oak Grove Dr., Pasadena, CA 91109 United States
AU: Froidevaux, L
AF: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, 4800 Oak Grove Dr., Pasadena, CA 91109 United States
AU: Jarnot, R F
AF: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, 4800 Oak Grove Dr., Pasadena, CA 91109 United States
AU: Read, W G
AF: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, 4800 Oak Grove Dr., Pasadena, CA 91109 United States
AU: Pickett, H M
AF: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, 4800 Oak Grove Dr., Pasadena, CA 91109 United States
AU: Harwood, R S
AF: University of Edinburgh, Mayfield Road, Edinburgh, EH93JZ United Kingdom
AU: Cofield, R E
AF: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, 4800 Oak Grove Dr., Pasadena, CA 91109 United States
AU: Filipiak, M J
AF: University of Edinburgh, Mayfield Road, Edinburgh, EH93JZ United Kingdom
AU: Flower, D A
AF: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, 4800 Oak Grove Dr., Pasadena, CA 91109 United States
AU: Livesey, N J
AF: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, 4800 Oak Grove Dr., Pasadena, CA 91109 United States
AU: Manney, G L
AF: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, 4800 Oak Grove Dr., Pasadena, CA 91109 United States
AU: Manney, G L
AF: New Mexico Highlands University, Dept of Natural Resources Mgmnt, Las Vegas, NM 87701 United States
AU: Pumphrey, H C
AF: University of Edinburgh, Mayfield Road, Edinburgh, EH93JZ United Kingdom
AU: Santee, M L
AF: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, 4800 Oak Grove Dr., Pasadena, CA 91109 United States
AU: Siegel, P H
AF: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, 4800 Oak Grove Dr., Pasadena, CA 91109 United States
AU: Wu, D L
AF: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, 4800 Oak Grove Dr., Pasadena, CA 91109 United States
AU: Schwartz, M J
AF: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, 4800 Oak Grove Dr., Pasadena, CA 91109 United States
AU: Stek, P C
AF: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, 4800 Oak Grove Dr., Pasadena, CA 91109 United States
AU: Jiang, J H
AF: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, 4800 Oak Grove Dr., Pasadena, CA 91109 United States
AU: Jiang, Y
AF: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, 4800 Oak Grove Dr., Pasadena, CA 91109 United States
AU: Cuddy, D T
AF: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, 4800 Oak Grove Dr., Pasadena, CA 91109 United States
AB: EOS MLS, on NASA's Aura satellite launched 15 July 2004, remotely senses Earth's upper troposphere, stratosphere and mesosphere by measuring millimeter and submillimeter wavelength thermal emission from the atmospheric limb. It is a follow-on to the Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite (UARS) MLS launched in 1991. The measurement suite for which EOS MLS was designed includes OH, HO2, H2O, O3, HCl, ClO, HOCl, BrO, N2O, HNO3, CO, HCN, temperature and cloud ice. Early results have demonstrated these measurements over an initial altitude range. This talk will give an overview of EOS MLS and some early results from it.
DE: 3362 Stratosphere/troposphere interactions
DE: 0300 ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE
DE: 0340 Middle atmosphere--composition and chemistry
DE: 0365 Troposphere--composition and chemistry
DE: 0394 Instruments and techniques
SC: Atmospheric Sciences [A]
MN: 2004 AGU Fall Meeting